The Journaling Begins

Folks, I've decided to make this new exercise program into a workout for three parts of me: 1) Emotional me - which is rather overly emotional A LOT of the time, 2) Spiritual me - which can always be improved and enhanced, and 3) Physical me - we all know that I should not not not have a muffin top tummy....being a woman who awaits the opportunity to have children, but who has not enjoyed the blessing as of yet. :)

I love to read mommy blogs because they showcase what my mommy friends do so well, and that is to care for and love their kidlets. This requires a lot of self-sacrifice, and I admire all of my mommy friends immensely for the selfless service that they give on a minute-to-minute and second-to-second basis. I've noticed that the service often spills into all aspects of their lives. I've also observed that when you serve one person, or one family, the natural course of events leads you to greater service opportunities in other ares of life. Having seen this in the wonderful mothers and mothers-to-be around me, I want to go out and start a philanthropic organization, perhaps donate a kidney....or make some other sort of positive contribution to society. I am hoping that as I focus on making myself a better, more emotionally, spiritually and physically balanced person, that service opportunities in my community will be more apparent, and more appealing, to me.

The real purpose of this post is to start a daily exercise/nutrition/gratitude journal. This blog might be a bit boring for the next few months, but I'll try to spice it up with other tidbits.

Here goes:

Day 1 - 21 June 2009
EXERCISE:
None. Will do cardio tomorrow.

NUTRITION:
Breakfast - 2 whole wheat Eggo waffles with fresh peace slices on top.
Lunch - Roasted potatoes, steamed broccoli, half an avocado and half a tomato.
Snack - Chocolate protein shake.
Dinner - Salmon pasta salad. (Came up with my own recipe...shall be tweaking it in the near future because I think it has potential to be very scrumptious and healthy.)
Snack - Weight Watchers oreo cookie ice cream bar. (It's Sunday...the day of ice cream!).
Snack - Snitched a few bites of the leftover salmon salad.

GRATEFUL FOR:
1. My dad. (Happy Father's Day to a very smart/wise dad.... Even though he's been my dad for almost 28 years, I still have lots to learn from him.)
2. My job. I love genealogy very very very much, and I love helping other people discover their backgrounds just about as much as I love researching my own.
3. My legs. They work like a charm!
4. Spring flowers and summer vegetables.
5. The chance to say goodbye to people you love. (My brother and his family are moving to Georgia this week and I'll miss them sooooooooooo very much. They are letting me drop in on them quite late tonight so I can give them last-minute squeezes.)